Recommended laserjet repair.

[Keith Smith]

When I bought my last printer 8 years ago the sales guy said they were 
manufactured to last 2 years. I'm sure they want you to buy a new 
printer every couple years......  They have become so cheap they are 
almost throw aways.



On 2016-01-05 16:36, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Jan 2016 16:13:35 -0700
> Matt Birkholz <matt at birchwood-abbey.net> wrote:
> 
>> Anyone care to recommend a (Lexmark) laserjet repair shop?  Does
>> anyone DO that anymore?  How much would you spend to repair a $540
>> (now $400!) 5 year old color laserjet?
>> 
>> Y'all are laughing, aren't you?  I took a 10 year old flat screen to
>> the Geek Squad recently.  It did not exist in their database(?).  I
>> think THEY were laughing as I dragged it back out of the store.
> 
> My experience with printer repair facilities, at least since the
> 1990's, has been it's like bringing your printer to Dr. Kavorkian. Oh,
> they'll fix the symptom you brought it in with (maybe), but three
> months later it will be dead for some other reason.
> 
> For me, once a printer is out of warranty, I look for a repair video on
> Youtube, and attempt it myself. Yeah, I might totally break the
> printer, but printer repair shops seem to break it every time, usually
> with just enough of an "incubation period" so as not to be responsible
> for their repair warranty.
> 
> SteveT
> 
> Steve Litt
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Keith Smith